William Wilberforce Short Quotes

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You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

William Wilberforce
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

William Wilberforce
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

William Wilberforce
True Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

William Wilberforce
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

William Wilberforce
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

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It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

William Wilberforce
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

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It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

William Wilberforce
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

William Wilberforce
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

William Wilberforce